Arthur Fickenscher

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Arthur Fickenscher (born March 9, 1871 in Aurora , Illinois , † April 15, 1954 in San Francisco , California ) was an American composer .

Arthur Fickenscher studied music in Munich with Joseph Rheinberger and then lived as a teacher in Oakland , California, and Charlottesville , Virginia . From 1911 to 1914 he was a singing teacher in Berlin . From 1920 he was music director of the University of Virginia .

He composed a mimodrama , orchestral variations in the medieval style , a dies irae , visions for voice and orchestra, church music, a piano quintet, choirs and songs (including the Willowwood song cycle ). Arthur Fickenscher invented the polytone , a keyboard instrument whose octave (music) consisted of sixty tones.

Works

  • Visions , symphonic poem for dramatic soprano and large orchestra, 1912
  • Willowwood and Wellaway , 1925
  • Day of Judgment , 1927
  • Out of the Gay Nineties , 1934
  • From the seventh Realm , piano quintet, 1939
  • Aucalete , symphonic poem, 1945
  • Lament for organ, 1951
  • Improvisational Fantasy for Organ, 1954
  • Aucassin and Nicolete symphonic poem for choir and orchestra
  • The Chamber Blue , poem for choir and orchestra
  • The Land East of the Sun , symphonic poem for choir and orchestra
  • Old Irish Tune for chamber orchestra
  • Evolutionary Quartet , string quartet
  • Willowwood for alto, viola and piano
personal data
SURNAME Fickenscher, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurora , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1954
Place of death San Francisco